Comment by anonymouskimmer
3 years ago
It doesn't matter whether slavery would have been abolished, because what wouldn't have been legally enshrined without the Constitution were the 14th, 15th, and 24th amendments (and later civil rights laws that finally gave power to these amendments), and possibly the 19th amendment.
Well, yes, this is effectively restating my point. Barring the constitution, there was little conceivable way for slavery to be abolished under the Articles of Confederation because there would’ve been insufficient authority to impose that on the states, nor likely the justification to enforce the wholeness of their union.